Hello, Birders. Hannah and Andrew and I looked for Boulder County shorebirds in the rainsnow yesterday evening, Wednesday, May 12th. Teller Lake No. 5 had a spiffy alternate Stilt Sandpiper (uncommon in Boulder County in the spring) and 4 Semipalmated Plovers. Clover Basin Reservoir didn't have much of the exciting stuff reported earlier in the day, but we did tally 13 Semipalmated Plovers, a goodly count for Boulder County. Also present were Black-bellied Plover, American Avocet, Spotted Sandpiper, Greater Yellowlegs, Willet, Semipalmated Sandpiper, Western Sandpiper, Least Sandpiper (50+, and that's a decent spring count for Boulder County), and Wilson's Phalarope. Also, there were 4 screeching Great-tailed Grackles. And has anybody noticed?--the eastern portion of the lakebed is, like, caving in. Surreal. Lagerman Reservoir had a small flock of female Wilson's Phalaropes, and that's it in the shorebird department. Also present were a Loggerhead Shrike, several Mountain Bluebirds, and a pair of Great Horned Owls watching from a roadside tree. Everywhere we went--and in between, too--we saw and heard American Pipits. Given the conditions, they probably thought they'd arrived at Trail Ridge Drive. -------------------------------
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